from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A seacoast.
noun Land near the sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The sea-shore; the coast-line; the sea-coast; the country bordering on the sea.
Bordering on or adjoining the sea.
noun Naval, a board laid out in squares representing a fixed distance, upon which models of vessels made to the same scale as the squares on the board can be manœuvered in playing a naval tactical war game.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast.
noun The seashore; seacoast.
adverb rare Toward the sea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The areabordering the sea; a coastline.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort
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Examples
The Moroccan government maintains that the 1,000 kilometer stretch of Saharan seaboard is an integral part of its historical territory and that has been its unchanging policy since Spain let go of Western Sahara in 1975.
Well, the US eastern seaboard is singularly devoid of precious metal ore deposits, which kept Spanish attention to the south, seeking more lucrative immediate spoils in Mexico and South America.
But, as I sit down today to write this article, a business executive with an industrial firm on the Eastern seaboard is telephoning a bookmaker to place a fifty-dollar bet on a horse race; a factory worker in a Midwestern town is standing at a lunch counter filling out a basketball parlay card on which he will wager two dollars; a housewife in a West Coast suburb is handing a dime to a policy writer who operates a newsstand as a front near the supermarket where she shops.
bilby commented on the word seaboard
People that build their houses inland,
People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house and build a house there,
Far from the seaboard, far from the sound
Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
Tons of water striking the shore,
What do they long for, as I long for
One salt smell of the sea once more?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Inland'.
September 22, 2009